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Calgary's new $500,-<br />
000 Corral Drive- In<br />
Theatre<br />
features<br />
Western motif, uses<br />
log and corral fencing.<br />
Six miles from<br />
the Calgary city hall,<br />
it occupies 18 acres,<br />
uses electric in-car<br />
heaters for year-<br />
'r ou n d<br />
Aluminum<br />
operation.<br />
siding<br />
screen has paint<br />
baked on, is 120<br />
feet wide by 50 feet<br />
high and is said to<br />
be the only one of<br />
its<br />
kind in the world.<br />
Family films, Year-'Round<br />
Operation for New $500,000<br />
Back of Corral's giant screen has name o*<br />
theatre painted in Western style letters. Four<br />
lane boxoffice is made of simulated logs.<br />
Corral fence is in foreground, log fence<br />
around tower.<br />
Corral Drive-In in Calgary<br />
Concessions building for Corral is called "The Chuckwagon" and is 60 feet by 80 feet.<br />
Building is of prestressed concrete and has no pillars or posts in main concourse. Bright<br />
colors— yellow, gold, red — are used throughout.<br />
Corral has Ccniu:j projection equipment. Ashcraft<br />
lamps, Ballantyne mix sound system.<br />
Installation by General Sound, Jim Zagol (left),<br />
Ronald Tiboni, airer's manager.<br />
Overall view of Calgary's new Corral Drive-ln. Concessions building in center is 455 feet<br />
from the screen. Exit and fencing appear in foreground. Speakers, in-car heaters, junctioi<br />
boxes are by Drive-ln Theatre Manufacturing Co.<br />
16 The MODERN THEATRE SECTION
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